Banca de DEFESA: ARTHUR VINICIUS NASCIMENTO VIANA

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STUDENT : ARTHUR VINICIUS NASCIMENTO VIANA
DATE: 27/02/2026
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência (Google Meet)
TITLE:

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE TEJIPIÓ RIVER: THE ARTICULATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND COMMUNITY IN THE PERIPHERY OF RECIFE

KEY WORDS:

Environment; Environmental racism; Coqueiral Baptist Church; Tejipió River; Community mobilization; Advocacy.

PAGES: 93
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates the actions of the Igreja Batista Coqueiral (IBC) and community mobilization, through the Popular Forum of the Tejipió River (FORTE), in confronting environmental impacts and environmental racism in the periphery of Recife, specifically in the Coqueiral neighborhood. Faced with the growing visibility of extreme climatic events and the socio-environmental vulnerability of peripheral communities, this work analyzes how a religious community transcends traditional paradigms to engage in a praxis of civic responsibility and political advocacy. The study explores the re-signification of the Tejipió River, from a mere resource or threat, to a subject of rights, driven by local articulation. Based on a qualitative approach, the research employs documentary analysis and participant observation to understand the relational dynamics, controversies, and resistance strategies that emerge from the community. The results demonstrate the IBC's leading role in catalyzing a rights advocacy movement, the overcoming of a temple-centric model towards an Integral Mission theology engaged with socio-environmental struggles, and the construction of an "ethnographic pact" of collaboration in knowledge production. The dissertation concludes that the Coqueiral experience offers an important model of vernacular environmental governance and community agency in the fight for environmental and climate justice.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1149562 - ORIVALDO PIMENTEL LOPES JUNIOR
Interno - ***.963.294-** - ANAXSUELL FERNANDO DA SILVA - UNILA
Externa à Instituição - VALDENICE JOSÉ RAIMUNDO - UNICAP